Prospect Ramblings: Year of the Short King
Prospect Ramblings: Year of the Short King The NHL will always have an inherent bias against small players. This isn’t necessarily wrong, since it’s an inevitable reality that players under 5-10 are less likely [...]
Prospect Ramblings – Fantrax Prospect Ownership Increase
- Welcome to the Friday Ramblings. This week I am going to highlight a couple rookies/prospects who are increasing ownership on Fantrax. If you have someone on your watch list was the +/- feature [...]
Players To Watch At The 2021 Hlinka Gretzky Cup
The 2021 Hlinka Gretzky Cup is underway, signifying the beginning of the 2022 NHL Draft cycle. Many of the top prospects from the 2022 draft class - and a few from the 2023 class - are participating in the tournament with the hopes of increasing their early draft stock. Canada [...]
August 32-in-32 Series: Anaheim Ducks
The 32-in-32 Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in August we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s draft and insights into their off-season movements thus far. Following this up, the September 32-in-32 Series will dive into every team’s prospect depth charts with [...]
August 32-in-32: Arizona Coyotes
The (now) 32-in-32 Offseason Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in August we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s draft and insights into their off-season movements thus far. Following this up, the September 32-in-32 Series will dive into every team’s prospect [...]
Penguins Film Room: Tristan Broz
Considering their only other picks in the draft were in the fifth and seventh rounds, there was a lot of weight on the Penguins' shoulders when they selected Tristan Broz with the 58th overall pick. Hockey operations were evidently very confident in their decision. In a year where many prospects [...]
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Prospect Ramblings: Draft Lottery Phase II, Harley, Robertson & Thought-Provoking Questions
This week the NHL announced that Phase 2 of the 2020 NHL Draft Lottery will be held on Monday August 6th. So far, the New York Rangers are the sole team to be eliminated [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Decade of Drafting (RUS/CZE/SVK/NOR/DEN/BEL/SUI)
Welcome back to the Thursday prospect ramblings where I can now continue my decade of drafting series. I was originally just going to look at players drafted out of the Russian leagues but [...]
Dobber’s DraftCast Episode 3: Summer Camps and 2021 Draft Kick Off
In Episode 3 of Dobber’s DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen talk about the recent U20 games between the Czechs and Slovaks and the U18 training camp games in Finland. They kick off the 2021 [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Handicapping Prospect Goalies Playoff Success Chances
With the NHL's Phase IV of the Return to Play agenda underway, and now being only a day away from critical hockey games, there is one category of decisions that still seems to be uncertain [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Updated Stand Out Prospects and Series Predictions
Welcome to the Thursday Prospect ramblings. I realized after my last week rambling predictions of top prospects that could make a difference if given a chance, well a bunch of them were left [...]
Draft Class Deep Dive: Mavrik Bourque
2020 NHL draft-eligible prospect Mavrik Bourque of the Shawinigan Cataractes In hockey, manipulating and deceiving the defense is an art form. Some of the best playmakers in today's NHL are masters of [...]